In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.
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Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.
If you play smart, you may achieve your target without using up all your resources.
They are 1% rich because they aren't 99% dumb
what if you've been born more intelligent than others? and you can't force them to understand you, but you can understand them?. then you just need to force yourself on them, and you can map out their axioms and core beliefs and try to transform them. and then map out the fundamental concepts they need to know to understand you. i wish you understood me.
Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?
Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?
Success, Bill Gates said, is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.Same goes for good looking people. Beauty reduces the consciousness that it takes more to catch the heart of the right partner.We often think being good at one thing is all we need to succeed, but hey, success is less of what you are good at, but more of what you are good for.Of what use is beauty with no brains, culture without character, knowledge that does not impact, or skill that does not add value?For any seemingly "good" thing to last, great attention we must pay to the unseen intrinsic component that sustains it.
Don't ever let anyone tell you that college is for smart people. College eats smart people alive.
Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand the facts of the real world. Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset, and the most powerful force available for the transformation of human suffering.
Questioning is important for breakthrough innovation that in future companies will have a CXO level Position that leads all the interesting innovation - CQO Chief Questioning Officer.
Now what?_ he finally asked.Téa came to stand in the doorway of her office. __owwhat, what? Hey, is that you, Cal?___ffirmative.__ffirmative? Was that the cutest or what?
Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's why the smart people who do have money mostly use it for one thing_ They use it to make sure the people without it don't get any more.
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.
One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times they admit that they are wrong is inversely proportional to theirintellectual level.